Idioms - Photoshop Contest [34 entries]

Winning entry, with a score of:

62%

Contest goal:

An idiom is an expression, word, or phrase that has a figurative meaning and that is comprehended in regard to a common use of that expression. An idiom is separate from the literal meaning or definition of the words of which it is made.

There are estimated to be at least 25,000 idiomatic expressions in American English. Your goal in this contest is to design a visual of an idiomatic expression. For example for "pigheaded", you can make a man with a pig's head. You can find a list of idioms HERE
Good luck !

Status: finished. Check out the winners below!

Suggested by: Lamantine

hereisanoop: interesting... ( 5 years and 3497 days ago )

jawshoewhah: So basically we are converting an ironic expression and turning it into a literal visual? ( 5 years and 3493 days ago )

jawshoewhah: This is a lot like the living puns contest ( 5 years and 3493 days ago )

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Up the wooden hill - created by phubar

Favs: 7

SBS: 7

Hi-res

Rank: 1/34

Score: 62% (35)

20979 views

Up the wooden hill -
When you go up the wooden hill, you go up the stairs to bed.

Thanks to michelsick for the bed.
Thanks to Chemtec for the sky.
Thanks to dlritter for the tree.
Thanks to somadjinn for the wood 1.
Thanks to kovic for the wood 2. (5 years and 3490 days ago)

5 Sources:

1: bed
2: sky
3: tree
4: wood 1
5: wood 2

24 Comments

the, wooden, hill

On the Horns of a Dilema - created by IDt8r

Favs: 2

SBS: 7

Hi-res

Rank: 2/34

Score: 58.3% (30)

17124 views

Thanks to Ben Clifford, atomicjeep, TrombaMarina, Richard Forward, estherase, Gustavo Vara, bthomso (5 years and 3494 days ago)

8 Sources:

14 Comments

the, Horns, Dilema

Bar Fly - created by lchappell

Favs: 0

SBS: n/a

Hi-res

Rank: 3/34

Score: 58.2% (25)

18041 views

Thanks hiversansneige
Thanks Edwin Land (5 years and 3497 days ago)

2 Sources:

1: Thanks hiversansneige
2: Thanks Edwin Land

20 Comments

Bar, Fly

A Little Bird Told Me - created by fatz8016

Favs: 0

SBS: 7

Hi-res

Rank: 4/34

Score: 57.7% (20)

16817 views

Credits to http://nikxstock.deviantart.com/ (5 years and 3492 days ago)

5 Sources:

1: Girl
2: Barbed Wire
3: Wood
4: Bird
5: Farm

5 Comments

Little, Bird, Told

When Pigs Fly - created by pearlie

Favs: 2

SBS: n/a

Hi-res

Rank: 5/34

Score: 57.5% (15)

23310 views

2 sources and basic photoshop - painted smoke (guassian blur) and added some motion blur to the jet as well as 2 lights glowing; curves adjustment & painted edges of sky.
Thanks to Pietri for the use of the French jet fighter image. (5 years and 3493 days ago)

2 Sources:

1: fighter jet
2: potbellied pig

12 Comments

When, Pigs, Fly

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